Past Events
Distinguished Guest Speaker: Dr. Julia Alexander
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On March 4th, Dr. Alexander gave a lecture titled “The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment” followed by a reception in the Robert Earl Paige bedecked lobby. On March 5th, Dr. Alexander spoke with Dr. Andrei Pop (Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Art History and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago), moderated by Dr. Steve Pincus (Interim Director of the Nicholson Center and Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of History at the University of Chicago), in the Smart Museum’s Study Room.
Chicago British Studies Symposium
On January 24-25, 2025, the Nicholson Center for British Studies hosted our inaugural Chicago British Studies Symposium in the Social Science Tea Room.
Bathsheba Demuth – History from the Dogsled, Shapiro Distinguished Lecture, 4/2, 5pm
Shapiro Distinguished Lecture: Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University April 2, 2025 at 5pm The 2024-25 Shapiro Initiative on Environment and Society Distinguished Lecture will be offered by Bathsheba Demuth on April 2, 2025 at 5:00 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB...
Lucy Kaye – “From Where we Stand” screening and Q&A, 4/4, 4pm
Filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverse individuals in three northern English towns struggling with post-industrial deprivation. Amongst the people we meet in Halifax, Middlesbrough and Wakefield are an Eritrean asylum-seeker, a British former...
Richard Strier – George Herbert and Renaissance Poetry, 2/4, 12pm
Please join the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop and the Renaissance Workshop TUESDAY, February 4th, when Richard Strier Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago will virtually present the paper “George Herbert and...
Jonathan Connolly in Conversation with Kaneesha Parsard – 2/6, 4pm
Seminary Co-Op, Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Jonathan Connolly will discuss Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. He will be joined by Nicholson affiliate faculty Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard. A Q&A and signing will...
Ian Harnarine – “Doubles” 2/7, 7pm
“Doubles,” with Director Ian Harnarine Logan Center for the Arts Screening Room (915 E 60th Street) Friday, February 7 at 7pm Free and open to the public, food and drink to follow https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/event/doubles Ian Harnarine’s debut feature...
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives, 2/7-2/8
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives https://irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org/index.php/events/international-conferences/ 7-8 February 2025, Calcutta This conference of the International Research Network on Postcolonial...
Jessica Swanston Baker – “Island Time” 3CT New Book Salon, 3/31, 5pm
3CT New Book Salon Monday, March 31, 2025, 5:00–6:30pm Classics 110, 1010 E. 59th St. In Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (University of Chicago Press, 2024 ), ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from...
Kirsten Macfarlane – Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, 4/28, 12pm
Kirsten Macfarlane: Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World The Dean’s Forum puts Divinity School faculty members from across disciplines into conversation with each other to discuss their colleagues’ new works. The Divinity School warmly...
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of ‘Romantic Ireland’ – 1/22, 5pm
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of 'Romantic Ireland’ The History and Form of the Lyric Annual Lecture Wednesday, January 22nd, 5:00–6:20pm Rosenwald 405James Chandler, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of English and CMS